Past Events › Summer Camp

In Fantasy Character Design week we will explore process and visual development in both 2D and 3D media. Artists will be drawing from personal experience as we work with character silhouette studies, basic pattern design, orthogonal drawings, as well as inspiration/research strategies. The 3D portion will focus on exploration and elaboration of ideas through material and construction methods. Instructed by Alyssa Winans and Dennis Chan Register online at the camp website.

Humans have settled in almost every environment on our planet, building and innovating to meet wildly different challenges. In this week campers will explore what it means to engineer solutions to these challenges. How does a building that is safe during an earthquake different from a home that floats wherever the ocean currents take it? How would you harness the power of the wind or save every drop of water in the desert? A variety of activities will encourage students…

Register online Campers will create models of architectural spaces, functional objects and invent new design solutions for living spaces. They will go through the design thinking process as they construct cardboard models of their bedrooms that include embedded circuitry. Campers will use Tinkercad (a 3D rendering tool) as well as traditional prototyping materials and circuitry in their design explorations. The projects will engage campers in calculating ratios and proportions to develop scale models. Instructed by Corinne Takara